Review: Hot Tub Time Machine

No memorable lines from Hangover? Are you a ru-TARD?

Or my favorites:
- Counting cards is a foolproof system.
 - It’s also illegal.
 - It’s not illegal. It’s frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane.

Great review. Looking forward to checking out the movie.

“Not at the table Carlos”

“So, how bout that drive in, huh? I guess that’s why they call it Sin City.”

“Figuratively”

Sizzlechest thinks you’re weak.

“I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.”

I honestly thought the Hangover was really memorable (“The Doug we’re looking for is a white”), and while I think Avatar will be forgotten relatively quickly like Cameron’s other record breaking film, I enjoyed it as a fun ride. I do think he’s become more annoyingly manipulative in trying to create these pseudo moral fables. He lack subtlety, but still does action movies a million times better than Michael Bay (sans The Rock, I’ll always get a kick out of that one). Aliens or T2 stand as his best, since then he’s become increasingly George Lucas. Becoming obsessed with telling “his” stories, while giving little or no credit to the audience. District 9 was better scifi for the year.

That said, all it took was one trailer for HTTM and I was sold. In fact, it was that very moment you pointed out that gave me the greenlight, the wink at the audience with that one line. Thanks for the post, nice to have movie discussions. Especially hot tub time machines, every man’s dream.

Besides the fail involving Hangover quotes, agreed on everything about HTTM. I will definitely be going to see it.

Besides the fail involving Hangover quotes

I’m obviously in the minority there. Even after reading the quotes, I only remember maybe 20% of them. Hangover was funny, no doubt. But this is the first time I’ve seen it quoted, and it’s a rather artificial situation.

I too am on the Hangover as overrated bandwagon, but I think you’re forgetting movies called Wedding Crashers and Anchorman. The one-liners in those are far superior to Old School’s, although admittedly, Old School set the bar.

And then Anchorman proceeded to raise said bar.

Milk was a bad choice.

jc25 – Wedding Crashers is, in my view, almost the equal of Old School or HTTM. I only saw Anchorman once, and was disappointed. But I’ve been told it requires multiple viewings to appreciate (much like Lebowski).

“Roaming around the streets of Las Vegas, looking for strippers and cocaine.”—that should be Barking Carnival’s motto. Figuratively, of course.

I enjoyed the post, Brick, thanks. I’ll watch the movie when I get the chance.

Brickhorn is my kind of guy. He’s the anti-HenryJames.

Most of us are anti-HenryJames.

Speaking of … “PAGING, DR. FAGGOT!”

I’m all for the lowing of The Hangover in the pantheon of fine comedies…but that being said you forgot the now ubiquitous IN THE FACE!

Aggies and frat types are particularly fond of that line.

“Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon” was about the best line I could remember from the Hangover. So agreed…not all that hilarious.

So…What’s up, fags?

Tattoo on the lower back. Might as well be a bulls-eye.

Brick, I thought so the first time too. Anchorman in theaters, coming off Old School, was supremely disappointed. Then my friends and I stumbled upon it on cable or DVD or something. Like a whale’s vagina, it only gets better with age.

I laughed every time I saw the commercial for HTTM during the Olympics. The bewildered look on Darryl’s face when he says “it must be some kind of hot tub time machine” is awesome.

Anchorman is the most quotable movie ever.

Wedding Crashers-“Where’s Sack, we sail without him!” Now say it in a Chris Walken voice.

The Hangover was way over rated, and I catch hell for that opinion almost daily.

Everytime me and my boys watch Lebowski we find something else to laugh about. The latest find was when they released Donnie’s ashes and Walter said, “Goodnight, sweet prince.” For weeks afterwards I’d get texts from my friends saying the same, usually around 10 p.m.

You woke the bears. Why did you do that?

Anchorman > Old School > The Hangover

“My name is Sctanley, spelled with a C.”

Oh wait, no!

Lebowski is the most quotable movie ever, IMHO.

“I told those fucks down at the league office a thousand times that I don’t roll on Shabbos! "
“This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass! "
“Obviously you’re not a golfer. "
“Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please. "
“I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos. "
“Hey, careful, man, there’s a beverage here! "

Just a few of my favorites.

Ugh, I didn’t think there were more than 2 or 3 funny moments in The Hangover. Old School, Anchorman, Wedding Crashers are all hysterical. Hangover? Not so much. Too bad because it was a great premise.

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

The Hangover was categorically unfunny.

Wedding Crashers > Old School > Anchorman > The Hangover

People helping people. It’s powerful stuff.

HTTM has the look of 4 stars or better, just from the trailer you say doesn’t do it justice.

Lebowski — 5 stars

Hangover, Anchorman, Caddyshack — 4 stars (throw in Superbad, cuz we were all young once)

Wedding Crashers — 3 stars

But Old School?? — 1 star in my book. Can’t believe it’s held in such esteem here.

I’ll just go look for a money machine.

Wedding Crashers needs to go to 4 stars for epic gratuitous nudity.

I was underwhelmed by The Hangover. The snapshots at the end were better than the movie. It was amusing at best.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe Diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era.

Sounds like we’ve got a room full of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers in here.

…and proud we are of all of them.

“You’re out of your element, Donny!”

I have to admit when I first saw the trailer for HTTM I assumed it to be another lame attempt at comedy, but after this article, I am inclined enough to go drop $20 at Alamo to see it. It can be gold when a character “breaks the fourth wall” but only some can do it well (Family Guy is great at doing it). But apparently from the trailer HTTM pulled it off well. And if you’re not sure what breaking the fourth wall is, Google it.

Some of my favorite quotable comedy movies:
Big Lebowski (The rug really tied the room together.)
Dumb and Dumber (Harry! I said I took care of it!)
Zombieland (I’ve beat wholesale ass for a lot less.)
Friday
Napoleon Dynamite
Super Trooper (Team Ramrod!)

Jackie Treehorn treats objects like women, man….

As someone who graduated from high school in 1985, I am pissed I didn’t WRITE Hot Tub Time Machine, and I haven’t even seen it.

As for quotable comedy . . .

Raising Arizona anyone? Better Off Dead? Or perhaps one of the most underrated of all time, the Hollywood Knights?

Anchorman = zzzzzzzzz. Wedding Crashers was better than I expected. I didn’t remember a single line from the Hangover until someone posted them here. Never even saw Old School.

And I liked Avatar despite the clunky dialogue. Maybe I’m that desperate for some good science fiction. Alien was on last night. Couldn’t turn it off.

Anchorman>Wedding Crashers>Old School>The Gods Must be Crazy>Blazing Saddles>Animal House>The Hangover

JUICE – if you want good science fiction, rent Moon.

Anchorman>Wedding Crashers>Old School>Pee Wee’s Big Adventure>Blazing Saddles>The Gods Must be Crazy>Animal House.

The first half of Old School was outstanding. The 2nd half sucked harder than an asthmatic whore.

I hated Anchorman at first, but I think the turning point during the first viewing was the Mexican restaurant called We Spit in Your Food (however you say that in spanish – my wife translated) and it’s become much better with more viewings.

Quotable comedy? Everybody on this thread should kill themselves for not mentioning the most quotable comedy ever – Fletch.

“It’s all ball bearings these days”

“I lease, with an option to buy”

“Yes, very good. I’ll have a steak sandwich and…a steak sandwich”

“Better just have two portions then”

“Don’t talk to me like that, assface. I don’t work for you yet”

“Put it on the Underhill’s tab”

“Say doc, you using the whole fist there?”

“Do you have the Beatles’ White Album?”

“Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia and a glass of hot fat”

“So you’re saying she’s not here”

And so forth.

I took my movie aficianado friend to LA for The Game. Everytime we left the house he asked if we were going to San Berdo. Over rated movie in my opinion. Off to kill myself.

Henley, a few years ago I was in my doctor’s office, and he had his hand up my ass. I said “mooooon river!…. you using the whole fist there doc?”. He laughed and said “Chevy Chase fan, huh?”. I said “Sorry, I bet you get that all the time”. He said “Nope, you’re the first one.”
So I’m proud of that.

Magnus, dude… Animal House = only movie with six, count ‘em, six stars. It’s the pater familias of the genre and untopped to this day.

Nordberg, tell us more!!

Not looking forward to that experience.

Old Time, if you think it’s better than ‘The God’s Must be Crazy’ then I’m not sure I can ever trust anything you say.

All your favorite comedy stars in a Ron Howard short. (Not an endorsement of the message.)

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/f5a57185bd/funny-or-die-s-presidential-reunion?rel=player

Rufies? How about rapies?

- It’s not illegal. It’s frowned upon, like masturbating on an airplane.
-I’m pretty sure that’s illegal too.
-Well, maybe after 911. Thanks Bin Laden.

Have any of you ever seen Barcelona? Very quotable

Also, The Graduate is one of the funniest movies ever made. I like comedies in which none of the jokes have set-ups.

Gods Must Be Crazy I and II were great, but they’re in a whole other tradition. Boer comedy you might call it.

Graduate too. Saw it in Austin on its first run, but it dates back to the movies as high art/significant social commentary days. It was Animal House that dispensed with the high tone and said movies could be entertaining in low ways… borrowing from TV but going places you dare not go in primetime broadcast.

I’m trying to figure out your “inside jokes”. I’m sure when all the Barkers get together at Applebee’s it must be a blast.

My ass hurts just from reading this thread.

“How was she feeling last night?
She felt fine to me.” — awesome Fletch line.

Also — Anchorman has to be watched multiple times, but it is eminently quotable.

Can we get a little love in here for Clerks? The whole “my girlfriend sucked 36 dicks.” scene is epic.

Hot Tub Time Machine – BEST movie EVERRRRR!!! we made a music video about it because it’s so rad!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVsUTXjasA

Glad to see the Cohen brothers getting some love.

“They done loved him up into a frog!”

So how much longer until Cusack starts appearing on CSI Grosse Pointe or Law and Order?

I have a feeling you have to be an old married fart like me to have truly enjoyed it, since my 21 year old son doesn’t think nearly as much of it as I do, but I don’t think I’ve ever laughed harder at my first viewing of a movie than I did at Knocked Up. Everything about that movie made me laugh. I think it was helped by the fact that it was a chick flick in disguise, so you didn’t think it would have as many raunchy laughs as it did. Not as quotable as some others, but damn did it make me laugh.

Looking forward to HTTM. Laughed a lot at Anchorman. Laughed some at The Hangover (mostly at the pics at the end) and don’t really think Old School was that funny. Maybe I need to watch it again, since I only saw it once.

To the Food King!

I didn’t mention Fletch because it literally goes without saying (like Caddyshack). Stripes anyone? Can’t believe I didn’t unearth one other Knights fan. Another one I did forget: Fast Times. And Dazed. And …
BH, I did see Moon, at the Dobie. Good premise, dragged a little.

If you haven’t watched it lately, my Kids talked me into Ghostbusters recently. Bill Murrey firing on all cylnders.

I’m intrigued by the people saying “The Hangover” wasn’t funny.

467.3 million entries in the only public opinion poll that counts (WWBO $$) each disagree with you.

Hangover isn’t unfunny but my expectations were built up too high. Galifiansomethingorother is greatness though.

And Murray is great in everything but best in Life Aquatic.

Well you can kiss my left nut.

Sir, my seat belt seems to be broken. What do you recommend me to do?

I recommend you stop being such a faggot.

It’s true, Mayor. This man has no dick.

Brick
Great review. Regrettably, I trust your instincts. This film plus alchohol.

IMDB claims Anchorman 2 is currently in production

Ghostbusters is strangely underrated, in the sense that it’s never listed amongst the all-time great comedies.

Why worry. Each one of us is carrying an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.

Nordberg, I had a different experience. I told my doctor I’d forego the Moon River stuff, and he said he had never seen Fletch but he felt like he had with as many times as people had quoted it during that exam.

“How long have you had these pains, Mr. Barber?”

“That’s Babar”

“2 B’s?”

“1 B. B-A-B-A-R.”

“That’s 2 B’s”

“Yeah, but not together. I thought that’s what you meant.”

Ack, not a single mention of Team America or Spaceballs? Two of my alltime favorites that only get better everytime to watch them.

Dark Helmet: [looking at Mr. Coffee] What’s the matter with this thing, what’s all that churnning and bubbling, you call that radar screen?
Colonel Sandurz: No, sir. We call it,
[slaps the machine]
Colonel Sandurz: Mr Coffee. Care for some?
[prepairs a cup for Helmet]
Dark Helmet: Yes. I always have my coffee when I watch radar, you know that.
Colonel Sandurz: Of course I do, sir.
Dark Helmet: [to everybody] Everybody knows that!
All the henchmen in the room: [covering their crotches] Of course we do, sir.

It’s Mega Maid. She’s gone from suck to blow!

Team, this is all my fault. I was overzealous in Cairo. I let racism cloud my judgment. I was so sure the ultimate terrorist was Middle Eastern, but I didn’t realize he was a goddamn Gook. I’ll never be a racist again.

Gary Johnston: Your skills are fading with age, Mrs. Sarandon.
Susan Sarandon: You will die a peasant’s death!

freedom isn’t free/no, there’s a hefty fucken fee/and if you don’t all chip in your buck o’five who will/mmm buck o’five/freedom costs a buck o’five

Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

Team America was phenomenal.

“SSSSSSSEEEENNNNNDDDD IN THE PUMMAAASSSSSS!!!!

“I’m so ronery, yeah, just a rittle ronery…..”

Lil Kim Jon Il not winning an Oscar that year might have been the biggest snub ever.

I tried watching Spaceballs a while back. I loved it as a kid, now not so much. ‘My Blue Heaven’ gives me my all important Moranis fix.

Sex Panther- “60% of the time, it works everytime”

I agree on Ghostbusters. Spaceballs was one of my favorites, but it does not live up to the rewatchability standard.

"Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon"

Thank you for posting this. I have not yet seen “The Hangover”, so you can imagine my confusion when this quote was on the sign for a gas station in Manhattan (do I have to say KS here?) for several months.

Also, BrickHorn, when you wrote: “A pointless love story could have dominated the second half of the movie.”, were you thinking of “Wedding Crashers”? I know I was. Whenever I’m bored and that movie’s on cable, I might enjoy watching the first half, but I generally turn it off well before I get to the end.

There is a second Anchorman out on the internetz. Look for Anchorman The Lost Tapes or The Lost Tapes of Ron Burgandy. Its something like that, we came across it looking for the original and didn’t really get what was going on due to inebriation for like 20 minutes. Check movie-forumz.org

Most quotable TV show of all time has to be Chappelle’s Show. No question, nothing even comes close.
There’s the classic “I’m Rick James, bitch”, but there are literally a hundred more, such as Tyrone Biggums’ classics “Is anthrax…bad?” and “How could you be asleep, if you’re high on crack?”.
And of course, my all time favorite, “Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?”

From the same Wayne Brady episode a frightened Chapelle greets the hookers thusly, “Evening bitches.” I was cracking up about that the other day.

However, that Lil John shit got old quick. You couldn’t go to a bar, the river, pretty much anywhere without hearing, “YEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!.” Or, “WHHAAAAAATT?”

Spinal Tap, Best in Show, Royal Tannenbaums…

What a great movie! We went to a screening and were so inspired to write this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVsUTXjasA

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